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mslms

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Registered: 2006-08-11

Posts: 5

[Solved] Creative Xmod and alsa

Got Arch Linux installed today but got stuck on getting my Creative Xmod working.

cat /proc/asound/cards:

 0 [ICH6           ]: ICH4 - Intel ICH6
                      Intel ICH6 with ALC655 at irq 18
 1 [Modem          ]: ICH-MODEM - Intel ICH6 Modem
                      Intel ICH6 Modem at irq 18
 2 [Xmod           ]: USB-Audio - Creative Xmod
                      Creative Technology Ltd Creative Xmod at usb-0000:00:1d.7-3.1, full speed

But when I go into alsaconf I only see the Intel and legacy. Xmod is nowhere to be found.

Been looking around on the web for a while now but can't really find something useful so I was hoping someone here maybe has the same device as I and got it working.

Need more info? In that case tell me and I will give it to you.

Hope this got into the right forum as well.

*edit*

I got a step closer now.

Added this to my /etc/modprobe.conf:

alias char-major-116 snd

alias char-major-14 soundcore

alias snd-card-0 snd-usb-audio
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0

alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss

alias /dev/mixer snd-mixer-oss
alias /dev/dsp snd-pcm-oss
alias /dev/midi snd-seq-oss

options snd-usb-audio index=0

alias snd-card-1 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-1 snd-card-1

alias sound-service-1-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-1-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-1-12 snd-pcm-oss

options snd-intel8x0 index=1

alias /dev/dsp1 snd-pcm-oss

options snd cards_limit=2 

options snd-usb-audio nrpacks=1

So now alsamixer has Creative Xmod as card but there's still a problem and that occurs when I try to get some sound out of it.

VLC says:

[00000334] oss audio output error: write failed (Broken pipe)

So now I'm stuck again...

*edit2*

dmesg says:

cannot submit datapipe for urb 0, error -28: not enough bandwidth

Hmm...

*edit3*

Plugged the device straight into my computer (no hubs in the way) and it solved the problem.

Last edited by mslms (2008-04-14 18:22:58)